Creative Nonfiction :: NewPages Guide to Literary Magazines

        

Creative Nonfiction

About Creative Nonfiction: Creative Nonfiction is the first and the largest journal devoted exclusively to literary nonfiction.

Publisher’s Description: Creative Nonfiction is the voice of the genre. Every issue is packed with new, long-form essays that blend style with substance; writing that pushes the traditional boundaries of the genre; notes on craft; conversations with writers and editors; insights and commentary from CNF editor Lee Gutkind; and more. Occasional themed issues demonstrate the editors' belief that true stories, well told, can make any topic compelling and relevant. Simply put, CNF strives to demonstrate the depth and versatility of the genre it helped define.

Recent issues have included interviews with or essays by Lauren Slater, Phillip Lopate, Susan Cheever, Dave Eggers, Richard Rodriguez, Ruth Reichl, John T. Edge and David Shields.

"Simply great essays by talented writers" —Library Journal

Recent issues:

Issue #48, Southern Sin: Deception in the Delta. Excess in the Big Easy. Shacking up in South Carolina. ...Join CNF as we sin our way through the South with nine wickedly good new stories. Plus: Writing isn't therapy, but can it be therapeutic? Three writers explore the intersection of literature and healing. Also in this issue: Tiny truths, a nonfiction sestina, and some stories we regret not being able to publish.

Issue #47, Female Form: We didn’t set out to publish an all-women essay section, but as we were reading for this issue, we were drawn to a number of essays about, in some way, “the senses”—hearing, sight, etc. Or maybe it’s more accurate to say they’re about “perception.” And, it just so happened that these seriously beautiful essays about serious topics—entomology, ophthalmology, archaeology, molecular biology—were all written by women. Plus: Elissa Bassist and Cheryl Strayed talk about how to write like a mother#^@%*&; exploring the possibilities of electronic literature; a roundtable discussion about the intersection of journalism and creative nonfiction; words to avoid in your prose; and more.

Oi, mates—CNF’s gone Down Under, and what a world we’ve discovered! The new essays in this special “Australia” issue (#46) cover everything from “bikkies” to bora rings, floods to fires, and Captain Cook to Coober Pedy. Plus, Geraldine Brooks talks about how her correspondent years inform her fiction; Robert Dessaix praises the pleasures of gossip; guest editor Leah Kaminsky compares creative nonfiction to general medical practice; a survey of Australia’s contemporary literary landscape; and more.

 

last updated 05/07/13